Use django-appconf

imagekit/conf.py

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+from appconf import AppConf
+
+
+class ImageKitConf(AppConf):
+    DEFAULT_IMAGE_CACHE_BACKEND = 'imagekit.imagecache.PessimisticImageCacheBackend'

imagekit/imagecache/__init__.py

@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ def get_default_image_cache_backend():
     """
     global _default_image_cache_backend
     if not _default_image_cache_backend:
-        from ..settings import DEFAULT_IMAGE_CACHE_BACKEND as import_path
+        from django.conf import settings
+        import_path = settings.IMAGEKIT_DEFAULT_IMAGE_CACHE_BACKEND
         try:
             dot = import_path.rindex('.')
         except ValueError:

imagekit/models/__init__.py

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+from .. import conf
 from .fields import ImageSpecField, ProcessedImageField
 import warnings
 

imagekit/settings.py

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-from django.conf import settings
-
-DEFAULT_IMAGE_CACHE_BACKEND = getattr(settings,
-        'IMAGEKIT_DEFAULT_IMAGE_CACHE_BACKEND',
-        'imagekit.imagecache.PessimisticImageCacheBackend')

setup.py

@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ setup(
     packages=find_packages(),
     zip_safe=False,
     include_package_data=True,
+    install_requires=[
+        'django-appconf>=0.5',
+    ],
     classifiers=[
         'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',
         'Environment :: Web Environment',